GENEVA : The athletes commission of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation has called on the sport's international governing body to back a full ban against Russian figure skaters and officials until the end of the Ukraine invasion. In a letter seen by Reuters, figure skater Anna Khnychenkova, chair of t
GENEVA : The athletes commission of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Federation has called on the sport's international governing body to back a full ban against Russian figure skaters and officials until the end of the Ukraine invasion.
"We are hopeful that the athlete committee will support our initiative of full and entire ban of Russian athletes and officials at all ISU international sanctioned events until the end of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine," she wrote. In the wake of the invasion, most international sports federations - including ISU - adopted recommendations by the International Olympic Committee to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus.
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